W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was
This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. Merwin about Walt Whitman. Critics have long assumed that Merwin had a primarily negative attitude toward Whitman’s poetry, viewing him as a spokesperson for the U.S.’s embrace of manifest destiny and its catastrophic ecological i...
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Main Author: | Ed Folsom |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2024-12-01
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Series: | Transatlantica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/23791 |
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